Doublemint Discernment

We had an awesome Discernment today! Rick & Patty Ruppert flew in from Baltimore to run it for us. They did such a great job. We made breakfast casseroles and brought the Keurig. The babysitter bailed last minute, but we managed with a great team! After lots of talking, laughing and praying- The Andersons and Oehmanns are our co-coordinators!

Drinking coffee and listening to the amazing Rupperts

Doublemint twins taking over! Top pic: the Andersons & Oehmanns. Middle pic: us, the outgoing Bravos with the new team. Bottom pic: the doublemint co-coordinators with the Rupperts

Also, we'd like to send thoughts and prayers to the Perez family on the loss of Steve's mom, Maria. We're here for you guys!

Spread the Love

We were super bummed to have to cancel the February weekend. We only had 2 couples signed up to go. Marywood was awesome and allowed us to move our deposit to March, where our numbers are much better. It seems like a trend that the number of Catholic marriages is declining. That's very sad. We need to work on encouraging our friends and couples we meet to go on a weekend! We had an awesome meeting tonight. It was our last monthly enrichment & gathering as LCs. We spiced it up by having some live music. John Piantidosi played the guitar and sang some love songs. We had a pasta bar (think Lady and the Tramp romance). It was a great turn out! A few couples we hadn't seen in a while! We covered a bunch of business and even did an Objectives and Goals list to prep for Discernment next month. We're looking forward to seeing you all on March 11th at Sacred Heart!

How cute are these two dancing to their wedding song!?

Prepping for Discernment

The kids loved the music, too!

A New Year for Marriage Prep

In the first month of 2017, Pope Francis spoke to the Roman Rota and discussed the importance of the family and the need for a “new catechumenate” for marriage preparation.  Here is the unofficial translation of the text. And we are rockin' right along with just that. We had to have our enrichment before the weekend this month, which is always a bummer. We are starting out small for some reason. Our gathering was small- and we were booted to the cafeteria. Fried chicken always helps with that, though. It was a gorgeous night for glow sticks on the playground for the kids. We had a new St. Matthews couple join us as well. We started the Discernment process by coming up with a list of strengths and weaknesses for our ministry. Make sure Discernment is on your calendar! March 11th at Sacred Heart!

Ron took notes from the enrichment so he and Patty could do it together later (how sweet). Don't mind the fried chicken grease all over his plate- or the huge slice of Denver's Birthday cake!

Check out all those strengths!

The January weekend was also really small with 6 couples. It was still a wonderful and intimate weekend. It was the Hoggatts first time as BTS and they are on fire! Yay! Also yay for Fr. Ed being able to speak Spanish! Great work, team!

Fr. Ed, the Pendletons, Hoggatts and Flahertys: January Dream Team!